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"Federal Reserve"

Jun

3

2011

Increase In Bank Sub-investment Grade Derivatives Reveal A Need For Gold Insurance

By: Doug Eberhardt Category: Gold Tags: bank failures, bank of america, Bank sub-investment grade derivatives, Credit Contraction, Deflation, FASB, FDIC, Federal Reserve, foreclosure, Gold, J.P. Morgan, mark to market, occ, TARP, too big to fail

The financial crisis started with banks getting burned in the derivatives market. Then TARP was manipulated to help banks get cash. Next came the Federal Accounting Standards Board (FASB) allowing banks to mark to model (fantasy) their real estate assets (cheat). And now we have come full circle once again as banks own more sub-investment grade derivatives today than at …

Mar

25

2011

The Lender of Last Resort Isn’t the Fed or ECB, It’s YOU!

By: Doug Eberhardt Category: Gold Tags: Banks, Central Bank, ECB, Federal Reserve, Government Spending, IMF, Inflation, Taxes

Banks always are bailed out by the government or the Fed and in Europe’s case, the equivalent of the Fed, the European Central Bank (ECB). The ECB is who is keeping Portugal’s banks afloat. But it’s also the IMF who likes to stick their greedy fingers into the pie, just as they have in many other countries, like Jamaica for …

Feb

14

2011

Many Financial Advisors Still Ignorant of Gold’s Place In A Diversified Portfolio Part 1

By: Doug Eberhardt Category: Gold Tags: CFA, cfp, Federal Reserve, Federal Reserve Balance Sheet, financial advisor, Gold Investments, modern portfolio theory, Price of Gold, Prudent Man Rule, quantitative easing, Risk Free Asset, U.S. Treasuries

What the financial services industry did was take the stable asset of gold and tried to replace it with the U.S. dollar. The financial advisors were led to believe that the U.S. dollar is a “risk free” asset, when throughout history, only gold has never gone to zero in value.

Jan

4

2011

Bernanke’s Psychological Warfare On Gold and Silver

By: Doug Eberhardt Category: Gold Tags: austerity, Banks, Bernanke, Budget deficit, congress, debt, Economic stability, Federal Reserve, Gold, Government Spending, Inflation, medicare, silver, Stock Market, underfunded pensions, Unemployment

Despite what the Fed and media say, underlying fragility of the data hasn’t changed and in fact, is getting worse.

Dec

29

2010

The Reason Harvard Students Are Ignorant Of Silver Value Today

By: Doug Eberhardt Category: Gold Tags: bankers, Federal Reserve, flaw in education system, gold risky, Government Spending, Harvard Economics Professor Feldstein, Harvard students, Learn about silver investment, Martin Wetzel Walbert, silver value, The Coming Battle: A Complete History of the National Banking Money Power in the United States, understanding silver

From grade school on to the university level of teaching, there are no basic requirements that explain to students what gold or silver represent in society, either from a monetary or historic basis.

Nov

17

2010

Just Returned From Sustainability Conference In Michigan; My Synopsis and Articles Coming Soon

By: Doug Eberhardt Category: Gold Tags: Buy Gold and Silver Safely, Deflation, deflationary credit contraction, Federal Reserve, Gary North, Inflation, Nicole Foss, Peter Schiff, Steve Keen, U.S. banks

The Fed cannot afford to have the banks implode. Without the Fed’s help, the banks would implode as I have outlined in Chapter 4 of my book, “Buy Gold and Silver Safely.”

Oct

19

2010

Bernanke Worried About Deflation As His QE2 Rhetoric Continues

By: Doug Eberhardt Category: Gold Tags: Bernanke, commodities, Deflation, Federal Reserve, Gold, Inflation

Bernanke talking inflation, but it is deflation he is worried about. Don’t be fooled.

Oct

8

2010

The Real Reason Bank of America Halts Foreclosure In 50 States – They’re Broke!

By: Doug Eberhardt Category: Gold Tags: bakn of america halts foreclosure, bank balance sheets, bank failures, bank foreclosure, bank of america, banking industry, Buy Gold and Silver Safely, derivatives, FDIC bailout, Federal Reserve, JP Morgan Chase, lenders, nations top banks, pmi bailout, sub-investment grade derivatives, top 5 banks, troubled banks

Many of the top banks in America are experiencing financial difficulties as well as the smaller ones. Bank of America has 454 billion of sub-investment grade derivatives coming due in the next 1-5 years. JP Morgan over 1.5 trillion.

Oct

7

2010

Bernanke Has Everyone Fooled With "Talk" Of More Fed Quantitative Easing

By: Doug Eberhardt Category: Gold Tags: Bernanke, Buy Gold and Silver Safely, Credit Contraction, Deflation, dennis gartman, Federal Reserve, Gold, Inflation, Peter Schiff, QE2, quantitative easing

The interesting thing to me is people still believe Bernanke at his word. But what would be the consequence of even more quantitative easing? It would be disastrous to the economy and the U.S. dollar. So why not accomplish what he wants to occur without doing anything?

Oct

4

2010

Why Should Anyone Believe Bernanke When He Says "We’re Not Out of Ammo?"

By: Doug Eberhardt Category: slide Tags: Bernanke, Federal Reserve, quantitative easing

What they do with these types of statements is try to convince people they are in control. But it is just the words they think that will move markets, not actual policy. In other words, they think that just by mentioning something, it is gospel….and so the people and markets will react accordingly, accomplishing their goals.

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